Overview
- In a Saturday Truth Social post addressed to “Pam,” President Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to act quickly and named James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James as targets.
- Trump told reporters that prosecutors should act fast and later posted that Bondi is “doing a GREAT job,” offering mixed public signals after his directive.
- Erik Siebert resigned as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after determining there was no criminal case against Letitia James in a mortgage‑fraud probe, while Trump claimed he fired him.
- Trump said he will nominate Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer and current White House aide with no prosecutorial experience, to be U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Democrats condemned the pressure as eroding DOJ independence, Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin defended looking into the targets, Rolling Stone reported senior officials were blindsided by the post, and separate reporting details ongoing inquiries into Trump critics and a stalled FBI case that had recorded border chief Tom Homan taking $50,000.